Hormuz disruption threatens AI hub ambitions, OECD warns
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Strait of Hormuz disruptions carry outsized macroeconomic weight in GCC economies, historically triggering volatility in energy revenues and broader fiscal planning that constrains discretionary spending on infrastructure and technology sectors. The OECD's warning links geopolitical risk to the region's diversification agenda, particularly as GCC states have committed substantial capital to AI and advanced technology clusters—investments that depend on sustained fiscal capacity and foreign investor confidence in regional stability. Supply chain interruptions through the Strait typically correlate with compression in non-energy sectors' growth rates and delayed technology projects across the Gulf, reflecting the structural dependency of diversification initiatives on hydrocarbon revenue sta
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